NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rabbi Avraham Wolf, the leader of one of Odessa’s two main Jewish communities, is preparing for a possible war on a communal scale. Rabbi Wolf has purchased enough sugar, macaroni and tin cans to maintain his community for an entire year, according to a New York Times report. Additionally, he has […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s main airport said Tuesday it has retained its top place as the world’s busiest for international travel with around 29 million passengers shuttling through the global gateway last year. The 2021 passenger figures are encouraging for the tourism-driven economy of Dubai, regarded as a critical link between East […]

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will test its entire population of 7.5 million people for COVID-19 in March, the city’s leader said Tuesday, as it grapples with its worst outbreak driven by the omicron variant. The population will be tested three times in March, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said. She said testing […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Last April, Itzik Saidian set himself alight outside the rehabilitation department of the IDF in Petah Tikva. Saidian was protesting the bureaucracy and lack of recognition of his PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) as a result of fighting in the 2014 Protective Edge campaign in Gaza. Saidian was so badly burnt in the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Eli Avidar, a member of the Bennett coalition and the Yisrael Beitenu party, is set to resign his position as Minister Without Portfolio. Avidar has summoned a press conference at 2 PM where he will issue his resignation. Avidar’s move will further weaken Israel’s already fragile coalition, as he is now an […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a stunning demographic turnabout, the Jewish birthrate in Israel has surpassed that of Muslims for the first time since the founding of Israel, according to statistics released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). At the founding of the state, the average Muslim woman was delivering 9 children. However during the […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has returned 820,000 doses of coronavirus vaccines donated by Poland because they were manufactured in the United States, state TV reported Monday. TV quoted Mohammad Hashemi, an official in the country’s Health Ministry, as saying that Poland donated about a million doses of the British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine to Iran. “But […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said in a channel 12 interview Sunday that in the event of a Russian invasion Israel would side with her longtime ally the US, despite its interest in maintaining cordial relations with the Russians due to their efforts to maintain quiet on the Israeli-Syrian border. Lapid said that […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An Israeli rabbi from Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood recently visited Tehran and spoke freely in Hebrew at the city’s bazaar, while wearing rabbinical garb. בלב טהראן בלבוש חרדי מלא: הרב יעקב הרצוג, שמאז הסכמי אברהם פועל להקים קהילה יהודית בסעודיה, ביקר בטהראן ושיתף בזמן אמת תיעודים מהביקור הכתבה של @kaisos1987 #בחדשותהערב pic.twitter.com/vO9WVeDqs5 […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Aviner, the rabbi of Beit El and head of the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva has called on Israelis not to eat hamantaschen this year, in the wake of a significant hike in their price in Israel. Rabbi Aviner wrote that : a) there is no source for eating hamantaschen b) […]